I'm still alive... been soooooooo busy!

I've had 2 CPA review classes a week the last 2 weeks and it's exhausting!! Tomorrow Jennifer and I are taking this interior design class with the Learning Annex. I can't go shopping because I don't get home until 10pm most nights. Last night my roommate and I went to Costco because that was the only time I was going to be home after work this week.

Bare with me while I complain about how crappy my last job was and how much better this new job is. I promise I'll try to make this the only time I complain!

I don't blog at work because I have a million checks to cut and the first round of bills is always the hardest because you have to figure out which ones are personal charges and which ones are business expenses. Credit cards are hell too because you have to code all the charges and these clients have 3-4 pages of charges per credit card! These clients are big big big time clients, people you guys have actually heard of :). Like I was telling Dante last week, our broke-est client right now is richer than Stan's richest clients. I've already deposited two huge residual checks - $107,000 and $238,000. I was telling my mom yesterday about one of our firm's clients - he made $40 mil last year (just off fresh work, not including residuals) and she didn't believe anyone can make that much! This is the difference between my old job and my new job... Stan was trying to convince his main client (a TV actress, series regular on a drama) to get a Hyundai as her new car to drive around in. She gave her Benz SUV to her daughter because she needed a car to drive. First of all, a working actress in a Hyundai?? That's freakin embarassing! At this new job, they just told a client to extend his lease on his 2001 Porsche for another 6 months... so he can get the 2005 ones when they come out! I was wondering why his wife was driving the 2004 Porsche and he was just in a 2001 one until they explained it to me. Usually its the wife that drives the older car while the big shot husband shows off in his better car.

I love my new job - the company treats us all so well... so good that I felt like I was a neglected kid who finally found a loving family who adopted me. I'm so appreciative of every little morsel I get! It's the little things that make a difference. At my old job, they had the cheap Bic pens, they wouldn't buy us Post-its or white-out so if you wanted that, you'd have to bring it in yourself. At this new job, the supply closet is stocked with Liquid Expresso pens, tons of Post-its in every size and 2 different kinds of white-out (the liquid ones and the correction tape ones. I used to call my old firm a "Third World firm" on AIM with Steph but now I realize how right I was. At this new job, everyone (down to the receptionist) has business cards, at my old job, I was a business manager who the clients contacted whenever they needed something, but I didn't have any business cards.

I used to message everyone to "kill me now, take me out of my misery" at work... now when people complain to me, I can't say anything. :) Dante tells me I love that job because it's new, it won't last long, but my first week, these co-workers took me out to lunch and this girl was telling me, "there's not much to complain about here, I just complain because that's what I do." The work environment is just so much more positive at this firm - people are actually friendly and they have lives!! Whoo, families to go home to, etc. At my old job, people were at the office allllllll the time, til 8-9pm because they have no lives. Stan was in the office Monday through Sunday.

Stan has been calling me up lately asking me if I could go in to work "AS A COURTESY"... am I right in assuming "AS A COURTESY" means, no pay?? Even if he paid me for the hours I went in, I wouldn't because money doesn't mean THAT much to me to have to put up with all the dumb crazy shit I left. I have been so busy lately, why would I waste time going in for free? I have classes, studying, and friends! The main thing that got me off my ass to find a new job was because I got pissed off when Stan had a talk with me a couple months ago - I basically got the feeling during that "talk" that Stan didn't want me to get my CPA, etc. and who wants to work for an unsupportive asshole? I'm sorry Stan, I should put this low paying, high stress job priority over studying for my future. Let me work my ass off so I can make the little little amount I got paid from you guys for the rest of my life. Yeah. Stan used to give me shit all the time about leaving early to go to my CPA review class... at this new job, they tell me, just leave whenever you need to, just make it up later. They take in consideration when you come in early, when you leave late - just put in your 8 hours. There were so many times in my 2.5 years I went in at 7:30/8am because Dante had to use my car - they would still give me shit if I tried to leave a little before 6pm.

So anyway, I got a new cell phone (Verizon!) and I'll be cancelling my old one next month, so I won't have to deal with the dumbass calling me and leaving me 5 minute messages of just crap. If I haven't given you the new number, let me know. I tried to email everyone to let them know but I might have missed some people.